Presenting a Smoking Addiction Pattern in Young Women; A Qualitative Study of Grandeur Theory

In recent years, an increasing number of young women have tended to smoking. Current study aimed to find the smoking addiction pattern.

To achieve the pattern of smoking addiction, the participants were selected through purposeful sampling method. Finally, 20 people were interviewed by structured interview method, and the data were analyzed based on the Grand Theory method.

The context conditions included family history of smoking, widespread distribution, easy access, and lack of family surveillance, and the causal conditions included start smoking by friendschr('39') persuading, accompanying cigarettes with other violations, the distinguished position of cigarette brands for women, the apparent attractiveness of cigarettes, lack of proper recreation, criterion of choosing friends, having tension in life, and gaining prestige by smoking cigarettes for fun, and mediating causes included experiences of high-level behaviors in childhood, disrupting personality traits, neglecting negative social views on smoking by women. Smoking as support, cigarette as tool for getting rid of loneliness, and cigarette as relaxing tool recorded as problems and consequences of cigarette smoking.

The results show that in addition to the effects of marketing and advertising on being drawn young women to smoking, psychological factors such as loneliness, personality disorders, and family relationships, and also social factors such as peer pressure and lack of influence from negative social perspectives on smoking are effective too. So, in order to prevent young women from becoming addicted to cigarettes, multidimensional look and applications are required.